Lynsey Addario Quotes

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Development

• I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Love
  • Done
  • Goal

• The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Characters
  • Core
  • Ensemble

• I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Think
  • Confidence

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Mind
  • Working
  • Big

• I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Like
  • Star

• I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Charity

• I don't know if my songs fit in films.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Know
  • Songs
  • Fit

• My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Sister
  • Seriously

• The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.

  

  Nas
  • Great
  • Growing
  • Respect

• I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Energy

• I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Night
  • Light
  • Hours

• When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Find
  • Gold
  • Name

• To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.

  

  Elise Andrew
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Art
  • Science
  • Inspiration

• Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Always
  • Engagement
  • Somebody

• The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Pilot

• Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Focus
  • Risk
  • Picture

• I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

  

  Lynsey Addario